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Tomato cages can be used to keep indeterminate tomato plants, peas, pole beans, or cucumber vines off the soil, helping prevent fruit rot and excessive insect damage.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 2 Mar. 2025
Both are easy to grow, though pole beans prefer a trellis, stake, or cage to vine up.
—Katie Boué, Outside Online, 5 Aug. 2024
There was also a pretty, sculptural tangle of pole beans left squeaky crisp and starkly vegetal.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
Full sun, at least six to eight hours per day
Green Beans
There are two types of green beans: push and pole beans.
—Katie Boué, Outside Online, 5 Aug. 2024
Both bush beans and pole beans can be grown near carrots, but pole beans need trellising to keep sprawling vines from competing with carrots for light.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Aug. 2024
Tomatoes, pole beans, cucumbers, and squashes can all be trellised.
—Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 20 June 2024
Good candidates for direct sowing would be bush or pole beans, lettuce and other green leafy vegetables, radishes, peas, carrots, summer and winter squash, cucumbers, and corn.
—Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 6 Apr. 2024
This quick and easy recipe pairs blanched pole beans with snappy radish slices.
—Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2023
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 2 Mar. 2025
Both are easy to grow, though pole beans prefer a trellis, stake, or cage to vine up.
—Katie Boué, Outside Online, 5 Aug. 2024
There was also a pretty, sculptural tangle of pole beans left squeaky crisp and starkly vegetal.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
Full sun, at least six to eight hours per day
Green Beans
There are two types of green beans: push and pole beans.
—Katie Boué, Outside Online, 5 Aug. 2024
Both bush beans and pole beans can be grown near carrots, but pole beans need trellising to keep sprawling vines from competing with carrots for light.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Aug. 2024
Tomatoes, pole beans, cucumbers, and squashes can all be trellised.
—Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 20 June 2024
Good candidates for direct sowing would be bush or pole beans, lettuce and other green leafy vegetables, radishes, peas, carrots, summer and winter squash, cucumbers, and corn.
—Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 6 Apr. 2024
This quick and easy recipe pairs blanched pole beans with snappy radish slices.
—Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2023
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“Pole bean.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pole%20bean. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.
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